The Mount Olivet Cemetery is west of Interstate 70 with its entrance on the north side of 44th Avenue. The coordinates are 39 degrees 46.815 minutes north and 105 degrees 8.61 minutes west. Horace ...

125 years ago: Horace Tabor dies, body lies in state at governor’s mansion The news of Horace A. Tabor’s death on April 10 will cast a gloom over the entire state. He came into Colorado in the 1860s ...

Little did Central City Opera realize, when it commissioned this locally inspired piece in 1956, that it would become an American classic. The story's chronology is oriented around the life of Horace ...

When you say “TABOR” to Coloradans today, they might first think of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. But the word is more than an acronym. It’s a nod to Horace Tabor, who came to Leadville in the late ...

“Ballad of Baby Doe” is a classic American love-story told in a 400-year-old Italian art form. It is a story about the boom-and-bust days of the Colorado mines in the Wild West, just before the turn ...

The Tabor Opera House was the first theater to go up in Leadville in 1879, and over 140 years later it is the only one left standing. Originally built by Horace Tabor, who made a $9 million fortune on ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado It seems that all Coloradans have this story of Horace Tabor ingrained in them. He was a rich fool, who ended up leaving his cold wife for a young, gold-digging tart. In the ...

LEADVILLE • When approaching Colorado’s most famed shack on a gloomy summer morning, it’s easy to imagine Baby Doe Tabor bolting out her door to order yet another inquisitive reporter to depart. But ...

Mar. 23 - Opera Theatre of the Rockies was founded last year by Metropolitan Opera soprano Martile Rowland with the specific purpose of bridging the gap between preprofessional singers and stage ...

T he roads were slick from the steady autumn rain, forcing most commuters to travel slowly to their destinations. But Mary Bracken Phillips weaved her car through the New England roads in a rush to ...